from the desk of tara hope…

a few of you have been asking for newer pictures of the house and i am so sorry its taken so long! i finally unpacked my imac and got all my photos ive been taking off my nikon all of which = i can start blogging again! 🙂

the night that we closed on the house my awesome brother ricky planned a little get-together at the new place so we could show it to some of our friends!

…eating our first meal in our new home! char-grill with ricky and caitlyn 🙂

… welcome to chez mccleskey!

…caitlyn showing off the hideous lovely plaster finish on the walls

… picking out paint colors!

…the little party and this cake made us feel so welcome! 🙂

…mawmaw and pawpaw came by after church one sunday to see the new house. at the time the only chairs were our new patio furniture so we had a good time testing them out 🙂

…pawpaw took matt down under the house to check the foundation. once an engineer, always an engineer 🙂

here are a couple of sneak peek photos of the new colors in the house…

….after the painting…much lighter and brighter! and that makes me happy 🙂

so this was a pretty random post but i promise to show you true before and after photos when i get it feeling a little more like home! we have a bunch of furniture painting to do (hopefully tomorrow!) and then alot of the rooms will come together and i can finish them up! for now i will leave you of a picture of our street 🙂

…i took this one day pulling into our driveway. our neighborhood is just so pretty and i love that we have walking trails and so many pretty flowers 🙂